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...California's republican governor, Pete Wilson. Tickets to such games are expensive (40 bucks for the cheapest seats this year) and usually obtained by what Richard Ben Cramer, in his new book What It Takes: The Way to the White House, calls the "corporate perks crowd"--white and GOP-friendly...
Campaign aides and GOP members of Congress have begun to worry about their ticket. And more importantly, reporters want some explanation for Bush's inability to find the path so well- worn by expert Republican campaigners. It is this combination which has slowly cranked up the rumor mill now known as the White House...
...liberals have not dealt with the explosive political ramifications of the ideologically defensible policy of affirmative action. Urban whites competing with Blacks have felt disadvantaged by the very policies their tax dollars paid for. The GOP has exploited this divide and reaped the electoral benefits...
...expansion deals before their urban centers had deteriorated enough to frighten the outlying areas. "Generally speaking, the cities that have had luck in annexing were the ones that were not too troubled or low income to begin with," says Kevin Phillips, the ex-Nixon aide who first identified the gop advantage in suburbia in his 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority. "When it's a problem city, the suburbs fight like hell, and they can usually succeed...
President George Bush comfortably defeated challenger Patrick J. Buchanan in Republican primaries in Wisconsin, Kansas and Minnesota. There was no GOP primary in New York because Buchanan failed to qualify for the ballot...